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Eight Penguin Random House Canada Titles Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize

Penguin Random House Canada is incredibly proud of our EIGHT authors who have been longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize. The Giller Prize is focused on highlighting the very best of Canadian fiction published in English, both long format and short stories, and it is an amazing achievement to be chosen for the longlist. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Library Card Sign-Up Month!

Spread the word! September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! According to The American Library Association, there are an estimated 123,627 libraries of all kinds in the United States! Libraries are transporting places where so many of us, and the authors we read, first discovered a passion for books. And we know that librarians are on the front lines advocating for our freedom to read. So let’s celebrate our libraries and the librarians who work so hard. Contact your local branch to get your library card if you don’t already have one and enjoy these titles about libraries and librarians: Continue reading →

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Edgar® & Agatha Award Nominated Author Victoria Thompson Passes Away at 76

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Beloved historical mystery author Victoria Thompson died on Friday, August 23 at her home in Long Grove, Illinois. She was 76. Continue reading →

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Penguin Random House, 5 Additional Publishers, & Authors Guild File Landmark Lawsuit Against State of Florida for Unconstitutional Book-Banning Provisions With House Bill 1069

The lawsuit follows recent legal action by Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks in Iowa as publishers continue to challenge book bans across the country. Continue reading →

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One World Hosts Landmark Banned Books Event Featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, & Many More

One World is producing a major event entitled “Free Your Mind: A Night to Celebrate Our Stories and the Freedom to Tell Them” on September 26, 2024, at the Martin Luther King Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA as part of Banned Books week. Continue reading →

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Invite the Teachers in Your Life to a Free Webinar Event Featuring Author Dr. Jonathan Haidt on September 24

Penguin Random House Education and Penguin Press urge you to invite the teachers in your life to a free webinar event: “Free the Anxious Generation Movement: A Call for K-12 School Leaders“. Presented by Dr. Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and author of THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, and moderated by Jenn David-Lang, Founder, The Main Idea and School Leader Masterminds. Continue reading →

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DK Moves Into Middle-Grade Fiction With International, Award-Winning Cornelia Funke’s THE GREEN KINGDOM

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DK has acquired their debut middle-grade fiction book, THE GREEN KINGDOM by the international, award-winning, and New York Times best-selling children’s author of The Inkheart Trilogy, Cornelia Funke, to be published in the United States and Canada in April 2025. Francesca Young, DK Children’s Publisher, obtained rights including ebook and audio. The audio book will be narrated by actress Jessica DiCicco. Continue reading →

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Find Out Which Books Your Colleagues Recommended at San Diego Comic-Con 2024

We are excited to share that our talented Penguin Random House colleagues formed an engaging “Buzzy Books” panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2024! Moderated by Estela Suarez, Associate, Corporate Communications, the panel featured Brittanie Black (Penguin Random House Audio), Maya Fenter (Random House), Madison Furr (Random House Children’s), Kaitlin Ketchum (Ten Speed Graphic), Matthew Sciarappa (Knopf Doubleday), and Andrew Taets (Penguin Publishing). The panelists highlighted the most anticipated and talked-about books of the year. Continue reading →

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Penguin Random House Leads Forbes Top Campus Common Reads Titles List

Forbes published “A Sampling Of The Common Readers That Colleges Are Assigning This Year.” Among the nine titles on Forbes’ list, there were six titles from Penguin Random House and its distributed publishers. Continue reading →

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The #1 International Bestselling Memoir of Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, to Be Published in Paperback

The paperback edition of the #1 international bestseller SPARE, the memoir of Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, will be published on October 22 in the US . SPARE by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, was originally published on January 10, 2023 and became an instant #1 global bestseller, selling more than 6 million copies, in all formats, across the world. SPARE holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest selling nonfiction book of all time. Continue reading →

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